What is an exurb ?

[Anonymous]

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How do you get the SES diversity when everyone is making $100-200K a year and there is "not much poverty" to "drag the averages down"? Sounds like people in the exurbs can't agree on what they offer, or are talking out of both sides of their mouths.

Nope, the exurbs are where people run off to when they want to live in a bubble where everyone is above-average and has a shiny new house in the latest development "away from it all." It's a terrible development model because there's always one more subdivision to be built further out and no one ever bothers to make sure there are jobs nearby or a transportation infrastructure in place to support all the new commuters.

Yes, we can talk on both sides of our mouth because we can. There are very expensive and cheaper housing available. The poor do not live in the ghetto. Middle income people also do not live like that. High income people also exist. Some have long commutes, some do not. Everytime I look for jobs I see a lot of jobs in Germantown, Rockville, Gaithersburg. You would have to pay a lot more than what I am making now to take a job in DC.

When a Dc job is recruiting and they find out the salary of the person working in Rockville/Gaithersburg, they know they need to up the salary to force the person hand into being willing to go to the city. Then again, it is hard to recruit somebody in this situation, many won't put a price on time away from family.

I highly doubt this is common. If anything you can pay a lower salary since housing is cheaper.

[Anonymous]

So now a salary depends on your address?

What about a car? Can I get a higher salary because my car is more expensive?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So now a salary depends on your address?

What about a car? Can I get a higher salary because my car is more expensive?

You are clueless if you don't know salaries are based on where you live. Even if you go to OPM.GOV the pay scale ... there is locality pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So now a salary depends on your address?

What about a car? Can I get a higher salary because my car is more expensive?

You are clueless if you don't know salaries are based on where you live. Even if you go to OPM.GOV the pay scale ... there is locality pay.

Fed salaries are the same in Rockville and DC. Also, the salaries are based on the location of the job, not the location of your residence. So PP, you are the clueless one.

[Anonymous]

The second of the three maps in this article shows the DC MSA with counties identified as suburban and exurban according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/local-news/three-maps-that-show-why-gawker-is-wrong-about-washington.php

Note that I share this only to show the map, NOT because I agree with Gawker's premise that you can say you're from DC when you live in the burbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The second of the three maps in this article shows the DC MSA with counties identified as suburban and exurban according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/local-news/three-maps-that-show-why-gawker-is-wrong-about-washington.php

Note that I share this only to show the map, NOT because I agree with Gawker's premise that you can say you're from DC when you live in the burbs.

Can we make this a rule.

I PROMISE not to ever tell anybody that I am from DC.

I proudly tell everyone that I am from Northern Virginia - I wouldn't want them to get the wrong idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The second of the three maps in this article shows the DC MSA with counties identified as suburban and exurban according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/local-news/three-maps-that-show-why-gawker-is-wrong-about-washington.php

Note that I share this only to show the map, NOT because I agree with Gawker's premise that you can say you're from DC when you live in the burbs.

Can we make this a rule.

I PROMISE not to ever tell anybody that I am from DC.

I proudly tell everyone that I am from Northern Virginia - I wouldn't want them to get the wrong idea.

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